Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-23-Speech-2-194"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2002 budget2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011023.7.2-194"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-23-Speech-2-1952
lpv:speaker	lp:Bartho Pronk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-12-09--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, to begin with, I should like to protest against the fact that the offices did not actually consider our opinion as such, for the reason that it mainly consists of amendments. They apparently considered our opinion as individual amendments tabled by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. I hope that this kind of procedure will run more transparently in future. With regard to the budget, thanks partly to a tremendous effort by our rapporteur, this has become a budget of consolidation. There are, of course, always disagreements about all kinds of sections of the budget, but we have been through worse. I also have to say that there are clearly fewer disagreements at the level of our committee, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Also, the Council has made far fewer attempts at scrapping sections than has previously been the case, so, as far as that is concerned, my congratulations to the Council. In my view, the problems that remain are at the level of open coordination. The Council is still tempted to say that that should be financed from the coffers of Parliament. However, Parliament must rubber-stamp this budget, yet it is not allowed to let its voice be heard fully on that score. We will need to hold extensive discussions on this matter once again in the years to come. We have a number of differences of opinion on this, and I hope that those can be settled in the next couple of years. There is another problem concerning EQUAL, one of the components of the Social Fund. Once again, the Council has made some serious cutbacks in that area too. Despite this, I hope that it is possible to restore the Commission’s preliminary draft in this respect. That seems extremely important to me. I gather that the Commission has thought very carefully about how precisely that proposal should be structured."@en1

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